Pylon aims to bring intelligent WiFi into your home

Pylon is a Kickstarter project that aims to simplify how you maintain your WiFi network, doing away with passwords and opening up your network to improved media sharing, all without compromising on security.

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Google brings faster WiFi to 7,000 Starbucks locations

Starbucks is often viewed as a great place to drop in, have a pick-me-up, and use free WiFi. If that’s your M.O., Google has made life a little bit better for you. Starting in August, Google will team up with Starbucks to bring faster WiFi speeds to all 7,000 company operated locations throughout the US.

Instabridge is a Swedish company that's invented something so simple, and so awesome, that you've got to wonder what took this industry so long! Here's how it works: You install the Instabridge application on your smartphone, connect it to your Facebook account, and now pretty much anyone you're friends with can join your WiFi network without having to enter that crazy long alphanumeric password you can't remember.

Consumer networking equipment doesn't get a lot of attention, frankly because no one really cares. You buy a router, it works, and you forgot about it because it's hidden behind a table. Once or twice a year you have to reboot it, but other than that ... why bother upgrading?

Motorola wants a cut of Microsoft’s Surface profits

The legal battle between Microsoft and Motorola just had some gasoline added to it after Motorola requested Microsoft give them a share of their new Surface's profits. Today, in the opening salvo of Motorola's suit against Microsoft, the phone maker's lawyers brought up the Microsoft Surface and claimed that the device’s Wi-Fi technology infringes Motorola's patents.

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Google, Microsoft to offer nationwide WiFi service in the UK through broadcast whitespaces?

While mobile data speeds are getting faster and faster, many users will still prefer to connect through WiFi networks, especially if the underlying infrastructure has a better quality and speed than the usual 3G or 4G connection. Companies like Google and Microsoft are vying for access to unused spectrum in some regions, in order to offer wide-area WiFi access to users.

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“Open networks okay for sniffing”, says Illinois judge

So here's the scenario: You have your own home network. It's never been compromised as far as you know and it's basically for sharing connections with tablets and smart-phones. Your WiFi hub is dutifully spitting out and receiving packets. One day, you get a notice from the MPAA saying you have a DMCA violation. They note they found it through your open WiFi network. Illegal? Not according to one federal judge in Illinois.